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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 10 › Verse 14: VER. 14.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I might show you most dreadful examples of tumults in stories. Josephus he speaks of many; for when God was ⟨p. 502⟩about to destroy the Jews at last by the Romans, their utter ruin was prepared by tumults and seditions that were among themselves.1 In his second Book of the Jewish Wars the 11. Chap. he speaks of one Eleazar, and Alexander that raised a Tumult, and murdered as they went, men, women, and children, and so made havoc of the Country, that the Nobles of Jerusalem were fain to come out clothed with sackcloth and ashes upon their heads to beseech them that they would have pity upon their Country, and upon their wives and children, and the Temple, The Nobles with sackcloth and ashes upon their heads came to assuage the rage of this Tumult so grievous was it.2 And I find in his sixth Book and 11. Chap. another story of Tumults and seditious Spirits, that they being in some straights for food if there were but any places in the City that had their doors shut up they did suspect there was meat and would presently break in, and as soon as ever they came in, catch whosoever they found by the throat so as to take the meat out of their very mouths that was half chewed, they would not stand to ask them whether they had any thing or no but would run and catch them by the throat and pull the meat half chewed out of their mouths, and if any of them should let it go down before they could get hold upon their throats they would use them most cruelly for doing so. And in another place he tells that the Citizens suffered more by them than when the Enemies took it; so that when the enemies took it they thought that it was rather a relieving of their misery, than bringing evil upon them, because the evil of the Tumults was so great among them. My Brethren,3 we should rather bear much than be any fomenters of the raising of Tumults, take heed of that, you know not what the end of such things will be, A Tumult shall arise among them. 4In Amos, 2. 2